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"In the early 1800s, books were largely unillustrated. By the 1830s and 1840s, however, innovations in wood- and steel-engraving techniques changed how Victorian readers consumed and conceptualized fiction. A new type of novel was born, often published in serial form, one that melded text and image as partners in meaning-making. These illustrated serial novels offered Victorians a reading experience that was both verbal and visual, based on complex effects of flash-forward and flashback as the placement of illustrations revealed or recalled significant story elements. Victorians' experience of what are now canonical novels thus differed markedly from that of modern readers, who are accustomed to reading single volumes with minimal illustration. Even if modern editions do reproduce illustrations, these do not appear as originally laid out. Modern readers therefore lose a crucial aspect of how Victorians understood plot--as a story delivered in both words and images, over time, and with illustrations playing a key role. In The Plot Thickens, Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge uncover this overlooked narrative role of illustrations within Victorian serial fiction. They reveal the intricacy and richness of the form and push us to reconsider our notions of illustration, visual culture, narration, and reading practices in nineteenth-century Britain"--

English fiction --- Serialized fiction --- Illustrated periodicals --- Literature publishing --- History and criticism. --- History --- Great Britain.

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Every writer is a player in the marketplace for literature. Jonathan Paine locates the economics ingrained within the stories themselves, showing how the business of literature affects even storytelling devices such as genre, plot, and repetition. In this new model of criticism, the text is a record of its author's sales pitch.

Serialized fiction --- Authorship --- Economics and literature --- Publishers and publishing --- History and criticism. --- Marketing --- History --- Zola, Émile, --- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, --- Balzac, Honoré de, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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The ups and downs of silk, cotton, and stocks syncopated with serialized novels in the late-nineteenth-century Arabic press: Time itself was changing. Novels of debt, dissimulation, and risk begin to appear in Arabic at a moment when France and Britain were unseating the Ottoman legacy in Beirut, Cairo, and beyond. Amid booms and crashes, serialized Arabic fiction and finance at once tell the other’s story.While scholars of Arabic often write of a Nahdah, a sense of renaissance, Fictitious Capital argues instead that we read the trope of Nahdah as Walter Benjamin might have, as “one of the monuments of the bourgeoisie that [are] already in ruins.” Financial speculation engendered an anxious mixture of hope and fear formally expressed in the mingling of financial news and serialized novels in such Arabic journals as Al-Jinān, Al-Muqtataf, and Al-Hilāl. Holt recasts the historiography of the Nahdah, showing its sense of rise and renaissance to be a utopian, imperially mediated narrative of capital that encrypted its inevitable counterpart, capital flight.

Literature publishing --- Arabic fiction --- Serialized fiction --- Fiction --- Arabic literature --- Literary publishing --- Literature --- Publishers and publishing --- Economic aspects --- History --- History and criticism. --- Publishing --- Arabic Novel. --- Beirut. --- Cairo. --- Jurjī Zaydān. --- Khalīl al-Khūrī. --- Nahdah. --- Salīm al-Bustānī. --- Yaʿqūb Ṣarrūf. --- capitalism. --- cotton. --- silk.

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""To be continued... "" Whether these words fall at a season-ending episode of Star Trek or a TV commercial flirtation between coffee-loving neighbors, true fans find them impossible to resist. Ever since the 1830's, when Charles Dickens's Pickwick Papers enticed a mass market for fiction, the serial has been a popular means of snaring avid audiences. Jennifer Hayward establishes serial fiction as a distinct genre -- one defined by the activities of its audience rather than by the formal qualities of the text. Ranging from installment novels, mysteries, and detective fiction of the 1800's

Authors and readers --- Serialized fiction --- Television serials --- Readers and authors --- Authorship --- Fiction --- Series, Television --- Television programs --- History. --- History and criticism. --- 82:3 --- 82:659.3 --- 82:659.3 Literatuur en massacommunicatie --- Literatuur en massacommunicatie --- 82:3 Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- History --- History and criticism --- Television series

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'Popular Culture—Serial Culture is the first book to explore serial fiction and the city-mysteries novel in a transatlantic context. Thoughtfully edited and introduced by Daniel Stein and Lisanna Wiele, Popular Culture—Serial Culture features original essays on many aspects of nineteenth-century serial publication by scholars from various countries. This book is an important and timely contribution to book history and transatlantic cultural studies.' — David S. Reynolds, CUNY Graduate Center, author of Mightier than the Sword: “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and the Battle for America and Beneath the American Renaissance 'Popular Culture—Serial Culture addresses in a comprehensive and thoughtful way a significant gap in our scholarship on early popular culture: the complicated and generative transnational circulation of serial texts through an increasingly frenetic popular print culture defined by piracies, “borrowings,” and adaptations. Popular Culture—Serial Culture allows us to reorient our understanding of popular culture by finally making visible how popular culture was always complicating national borders and literary cultures in ways that have ramifications for how we must understand pop culture today.' — Jared Gardner, Professor and Director of Popular Culture Studies at The Ohio State University, USA, and author of Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787-1845 and The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture 'As an enthusiast for the transnational turn in literary studies, with a special interest in the nineteenth-century serial boom, I am delighted to see this fine collection in print.' — Graham Law, Professor in Media History, Waseda University, Japan.

Serialized fiction. --- Fiction --- Literature, Modern-19th century. --- Popular Culture. --- Comparative literature. --- Printing. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Popular Culture . --- Comparative Literature. --- Printing and Publishing. --- Printing, Practical --- Typography --- Graphic arts --- Comparative literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- History and criticism --- Literature, Modern—19th century. --- Publishers and publishing. --- Book publishing --- Books --- Book industries and trade --- Booksellers and bookselling --- Publishing --- Popular culture.